# Palouse Elementary

*Machine-readable school profile — served at https://us.wa.whatschool.ai/en/wa/school/palouse-elementary-palouse/llm*

Full profile (human-readable): https://us.wa.whatschool.ai/en/wa/school/palouse-elementary-palouse

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `530654000960`
- **School name**: Palouse Elementary
- **Location**: Palouse, WA 99161
- **Address**: 600 E Alder Street
- **District**: Palouse School District (LEAID `5306540`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Primary
- **Coordinates**: 46.91259, -117.07095
- **Phone**: (509)878-1921

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 100
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 9
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 11.1:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 47.0%

## State accountability rating
- **System**: WA WSIF
- **Year**: 2025
- **Overall rating**: Foundational
- **Indicators**:
  - proficiency_ela_decile: 6
  - proficiency_math_decile: 9
  - proficiency_combined_decile: 7.5
  - growth_ela_decile: 4
  - growth_math_decile: 5
  - other_academic_combined_decile: 4.5
  - regularattendance_decile: 1
  - sqss_combined_decile: 1
  - _2025_score: 5.52
  - overall: Foundational

## Academic performance (state assessments)
### 2025
- **Overall (WA WSIF)**: 62.0% proficient

## Attendance
- **2020**: chronic absence 8.2% (7 students) [source: crdc_2020]

## Discipline (latest CRDC year)
- **Year**: 2020
- **In-school suspensions**: 0
- **Out-of-school suspensions**: 0
- **Expulsions**: 0

## Demographics (2023)
- **White**: 1.6%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 1.6%
- **Black/African American**: 0.0%
- **Asian**: 0.0%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 95.3%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.0%
- **Two or more races**: 1.6%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 52.2%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 7.8% — 7 students


## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 5 students
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 3 students
- **Autism**: 1 students

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $23,483
- **Federal share**: $1,583
- **State + local share**: $21,900
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 89
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $22,116,959
- **Federal share**: 11.6%
- **State share**: 68.8%
- **Local share**: 19.6%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $12,093,567

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $76,652
- **Poverty rate**: 7.7%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 34.8%
- **Unemployment**: 2.5%
- **Median gross rent**: $1,005
- **Foreign-born residents**: 2.5%
- **Single-parent households**: 3.3%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 36.6 miles (ST MARIES CREOSOTE)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 0
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 0
- **Nearest brownfield**: 0.45 miles (PALOUSE OLD PALOUSE PRODUCERS)

### Water safety
- **Public water system**: PALOUSE WATER DEPT CITY OF
- **SDWA health violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Acute violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Most recent violation**: 2022-01-01

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **Palouse High School** — 0.0 mi away, 4.84% (this school: 8.24%)
- **Palouse at Garfield Middle School** — 0.0 mi away, 3.33% (this school: 8.24%)
- **POTLATCH JR/SR HIGH SCHOOL** — 8.0 mi away, 3.08% (this school: 8.24%)
- **POTLATCH ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 8.3 mi away, 2.11% (this school: 8.24%)
- **MOSCOW MIDDLE SCHOOL** — 12.7 mi away, 3.22% (this school: 8.24%)

## Related data feeds
- **Profile (human)**: https://us.wa.whatschool.ai/en/wa/school/palouse-elementary-palouse
- **Performance**: https://us.wa.whatschool.ai/en/wa/school/palouse-elementary-palouse/performance
- **Finance**: https://us.wa.whatschool.ai/en/wa/school/palouse-elementary-palouse/finance
- **Demographics**: https://us.wa.whatschool.ai/en/wa/school/palouse-elementary-palouse/demographics
- **Inclusion**: https://us.wa.whatschool.ai/en/wa/school/palouse-elementary-palouse/inclusion
- **Context (neighbourhood)**: https://us.wa.whatschool.ai/en/wa/school/palouse-elementary-palouse/context
- **Attendance**: https://us.wa.whatschool.ai/en/wa/school/palouse-elementary-palouse/attendance
- **Discipline**: https://us.wa.whatschool.ai/en/wa/school/palouse-elementary-palouse/discipline
- **Outcomes**: https://us.wa.whatschool.ai/en/wa/school/palouse-elementary-palouse/outcomes
- **Workforce**: https://us.wa.whatschool.ai/en/wa/school/palouse-elementary-palouse/workforce

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*Source: US Dept of Education CCD, EDFacts, CRDC, F-33; US Census ACS; EPA SDWIS, TRI, NPL, AQS; state DOE portals (CA CDE, TX TEA, FL DOE, NY NYSED, IL ISBE, WA OSPI). Aggregated by WhatSchool.ai.*

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